by Erik Orsenna · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234063921
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«L'entreprise des Indes» is the historical novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Stock in paperback (400 pages, in French).
After a shipwreck, Christopher Columbus settles in Lisbon with his brother Bartholomew, a cartographer, and for eight years they prepare a project together: to reach the Indies, Cipango and the empire of the Great Khan by sailing west. Narrated by Bartholomew, the novel reconstructs that enterprise and the passion for discoveries.
The novel was published in 2010 in French, in Stock's La Bleue collection, and includes bibliographic references.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about the age of discoveries and the figure of Christopher Columbus.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
